This year's Keynote and Plenary Speakers include:

Monday's Keynote Speaker

• Craig Kielburger Founder of Free The Children, a unique international development and youth empowerment non-profit organization and the Co-Founder of Me to We, a social enterprise that encourages ethical living and global citizenship through socially responsible products and choices.

Monday's Plenary speaker

• Patty Loew is an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at UW-Madison, where she teaches Native American Environmental Issues and the Media and Digital Video production. Her documentary "Way of the Warrior" will be viewed Monday evening and she will offer a talk back afterwords.

Tuesday' Keynote Speaker

• Robert J Norrell of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville writes about race relations and southern history. In 2005, he published a highly-acclaimed interpretive synthesis of race relations in the twentieth-century United States, The House I Live In: Race in the American Century and most recently published Up from History:  The Life of Booker T. Washington. Dr. Norrell's presentation will be entitled:  "Up from History:  Rehabilitating Booker T. Washington's Reputation"

• See them at the conference.